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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em><strong>From the Spring 2015 Newsletter</strong></em></p>
<h3>Open Access and the new institutional repository</h3>
<p>This spring, CUNY announced the opening of an <a href="http://academicworks.cuny.edu">open-access institutional repository</a> to serve the self-archiving needs of University faculty. This new project provides a web platform where faculty can post, and the public can read, free of charge, works and dissertations authored by CUNY faculty and graduate students. The CUNY Office of Library Services has hired Scholarly Communications Librarian Megan Wacha to steer the repository development. John Jay College faculty interested in making use of the repository are encouraged to <a href="mailto:megan.wacha@cuny.edu">contact Megan</a> directly or<a href="mailto:esexton@jjay.cuny.edu"> Ellen Sexton</a>. Appropriate content would include conference proceedings, published journal articles (copyright permitting; see below), reports, etc. As the project develops, we will be drawing up formal guidelines; for now, we encourage interested faculty to visit the site, send us an email, and/or submit material directly through the author corner of CUNY Academic Works.</p>
<p>The Graduate Center opened its own institutional repository a year ago. It hosts a series of technical reports from their computer science program, faculty authored articles and conference proceedings, and CUNY doctoral dissertations from 1965 to the present. The older doctoral dissertations were digitized by Proquest, with the resulting files loaded into Academic Works and enriched with metadata. Access to the older dissertations is currently restricted to users at the Graduate Center. When/if the authors grant permission, access to the full text will be made available to the broader public. The <a href="http://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc/">Graduate Center</a> repository is moving its content over, to be the first CUNY college to populate the new Academic Works. It will continue as one instance of the new CUNY wide project, to be joined by <a href="http://academicworks.cuny.edu/jj_pubs/">John Jay</a> and other CUNY colleges.</p>
<p>The software for our institutional repository is called Digital Commons, from the Bepress company. This platform is currently used by over 150 institutions, including many law schools, to house institutional repositories and open access journals. Search engine optimization is actively pursued by Bepress, ensuring content is discoverable. Another nice feature is that users can search across all 150 repositories. Most file types may be posted on Academic Works, including conventional data file formats. (<a href="http://academicworks.cuny.edu/jj_pubs/2/">See an example of a submission</a>.)</p>
<p>Many grants now come with a requirement that resulting peer-reviewed published articles be made freely available to the public; CUNY Academic Works will help CUNY authors do so easily. If the author-publisher contractual agreement permits, we may be able to post the publisher’s final PDF immediately, or the publisher may stipulate an embargo period of some months or years. Some publishers permit the final post-refereeing draft to be posted; others permit only a pre-refereeing print. Details of each journal’s self-archiving policies may be found on the <a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo">SHERPA-RoMEO</a> site maintained by the University of Nottingham.</p>
<p>The majority of peer-reviewed published articles are currently locked behind pay walls. Open Access advocates seek to remove financial and technical restrictions on research dissemination. The library alliance SPARC defines open access as “the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.” Public and private grant funding organizations are increasingly embracing open access policies. Before the World Wide Web, research reports from Federal agencies were made available to the public in free government depository libraries, such as the one at City College. The challenge since has been to extend that openness to the online environment. The National Institutes of Health requires its funded researchers to deposit final, peer-reviewed manuscripts in the PubMed Central repository. The National Science Foundation and Department of Energy mandate depositing in the online <a href="http://osti.gov/pages">DOE PAGES repository</a>. In February 2013 a White House memo directed the heads of each federal agency to come up with a plan to provide online public access to federally funded research; this may lead to the development of other agency-specific repositories (this March the HHS released a report detailing its plans). The NIJ have been posting sponsored research reports on its website for years. Private organizations are also influencing open-access: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation requires authors to deposit funded works in any appropriate open access repository.</p>
<p>Open-access policies at journals vary tremendously. Some journals have gone fully open-access for readers; author fees are common. For example, Elsevier has many open access titles, mostly biomedical, funded by author fees. Journal publishing is evolving, with some very interesting innovations being explored. In January Elsevier announced a new open-access publishing project: a non-discipline restricted open access peer reviewed journal funded by author fees, to be called <em>Heliyon</em>, closely integrated with its SCOPUS discovery tool and the Mendeley bibliographic management and networking platform. Another wide-scope online journal, <em>Nature Communications</em> announced it would become completely open access by 2016, with its access-by-subscription model replaced by funding from author fees.</p>
<p>Clearly authors have options for fulfilling open access mandates from funders, and satisfying their own personal goals of maximizing the reach and impact of their research. We suggest the CUNY Academic Repository is an excellent choice in this regard. We hope the CUNY Academic Works becomes a stable, long-lasting show-case for CUNY faculty and graduate student achievements, and a reliable tool for disseminating current research directly to the public.</p>
<p><em>Ellen Sexton</em></p>
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</div></div></div>Thu, 14 May 2015 17:05:01 +0000esexton1391 at http://lib.jjay.cuny.eduhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-academic-works-0#commentsCUNY Academic Workshttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-academic-works
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>CUNY is building an institutional repository, <a href="http://academicworks.cuny.edu/">CUNY Academic Works</a>, dedicated to collecting and providing free access to the research, scholarship and creative work of the University. Faculty are encouraged to post their works here. Details of publishers’ self-archiving policies may be found on the <a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/">SHERPA-RoMEO</a> or in your publisher’s contract. In service to CUNY’s mission as a public university, content in Academic Works is freely available to all.</p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 06 May 2015 15:27:20 +0000esexton1368 at http://lib.jjay.cuny.eduhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-academic-works#commentsCopyright and reserves in the courts http://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/classified-information/fall-2014/copyright-reserves
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>From the Fall 2014 newsletter</strong></p>
<p>The legal battles over reserves continue to play out in the Georgia courts. Georgia State University was sued by publishers in 2008 for “pervasive, flagrant and ongoing unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials” through the library’s e-reserve system. The university revised its policies, but the case went ahead. On May 11, 2012, Judge Evans in the District Court of Northern Georgia made a ruling sympathetic to the University, finding only a small number of violations and setting out specific guidelines to be used in evaluating fair use of copyrighted material. Her ruling was appealed by the Oxford University Press to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled on October 17, 2014, reversing the decision in the favor of the publisher and remanding the case back to the District Court.</p>
<p>Many commentators have been assessing what the latest ruling means for library reserves services. The decision has weakened considerably the relevance of the 1976 “Classroom guidelines,” to the point where many observers say they are useless. However the decision reiterated the importance of the “four factors” we consider in deciding whether or not our copying of materials is fair. These four factors are written into Federal copyright law, Section 107 of title 17, U. S. Code:</p>
<ol><li>The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes</li>
<li>The nature of the copyrighted work</li>
<li>The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole</li>
<li>The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work</li>
</ol><p>At the Lloyd Sealy Library, we continue to follow the Georgia State University case, as do libraries across the country. As the Minnesota-based copyright librarian Nancy Sims points out in her blog, “It may also be worth remembering that none of this legal interpretation is binding law outside of the 11th Circuit (Alabama, Florida, Georgia). In other states, we can look to these opinions for guidance, but we can also explore different paths.”</p>
<p><strong>References</strong></p>
<ul><li>Starr, M. <a href="http://libguides.law.gsu.edu/gsucopyrightcase">GSU Library Copyright Lawsuit</a>.</li>
<li>Sims, N. (2014). <a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/copyrightlibn/">11th Circuit Rules On Georgia State Fair Use Case</a>. </li>
</ul><p>Ellen Sexton</p>
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</div></div></div>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:41:54 +0000esexton1301 at http://lib.jjay.cuny.eduhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/classified-information/fall-2014/copyright-reserves#commentsNew acquisitions in Special Collections (from the Spring 2014 Newsletter)http://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/new-acquisitions-special-collections-spring-2014-newsletter
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/screen_shot_2014-04-29_at_6.09.29_pm.png" width="640" height="202" alt="Lloyd Sealy Library Special Collections" title="Lloyd Sealy Library Special Collections" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img src="http://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/screen_shot_2014-04-29_at_6.10.19_pm.png" width="640" height="281" alt="Lloyd Sealy Library Special Collections" title="Lloyd Sealy Library Special Collections" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="p1"><em>Top: </em>A little journey to the home of Jac Auer<em>. Bottom: papers of retired NYPD Assistant Commissioner Philip McGuire.</em></p>
<p class="p1">We recently came across two beautifully illustrated works which came to us with the <a href="http://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/content.php?pid=227219&amp;sid=1880544">Helpern Library</a>, a large collection of books that was de-acquisitioned by the NYC Health Department. </p>
<p class="p3">In the last decade of the 19th century, a successful industrialist, Elbert Hubbard, inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement, founded a community of artisans in upstate New York, the Roycrofters. These woodworkers, artists, printers and bookbinders explored organic, naturalistic visions of the world. Hubbard’s 1915 account of a celebrity physical fitness promoter, <i>A little journey to the home of Jac Auer</i>, was one of a series of Little journeys published by their small print press. Hubbard himself died later that year in the sinking of the Lusitania. A digitized copy of a variant edition can be read on <a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org">HathiTrust</a>. Our copy is printed on watermarked paper, bound in suede, illustrated with graphics in red and black inks, with black and white photographs. </p>
<p class="p3">On the other side of the Atlantic, after the Great War, Dr. Fritz Kahn was accompanying his popular science works with extraordinary machine-inspired biomedical illustrations. Best known perhaps is his 1926 poster of the human body as a chemical plant, <i>Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)</i>. While we do not have the good fortune of owning that wonderful item, we do now have some of his illustrations in a 1926 English translation of his popular science booklet, <i>The Cell</i>. Kahn originally published the booklet in Stuttgart in 1919, as part of the <i>Cosmos</i> series. The paper of our copy is quite brittle and can be handled only with great care. Happily the same illustrations can be seen risk-free in a digitized copy of the<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40543"> original German print on </a><a href="http://gutenberg.org">Project Gutenberg</a>. </p>
<p class="p3">Just arrived in the archives are the papers of retired NYPD Assistant Commissioner Philip McGuire. McGuire’s professional interests at the NYPD included the use of information systems for crime analysis. The collection has not yet been processed, but we believe his records are likely to provide a unique look at the development of computerized crime mapping. We hope to make the collection available to researchers this summer. Shown here is a 1970s dot-matrix print-out showing a crime map of the area around City College. </p>
<p class="p3">We have also acquired an early American edition of Beccaria’s <i>Essay on Crimes and Punishments</i>, published by R. Bell in Philadelphia in 1778, bound in its original sheepskin. </p>
<p class="p2"><i>Ellen Sexton is the Interim Special Collections Librarian.</i></p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 22:13:28 +0000esexton1216 at http://lib.jjay.cuny.eduhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/new-acquisitions-special-collections-spring-2014-newsletter#commentsTenacious: Art and writings from women in prison (from the Spring 2014 Newsletter)http://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/tenacious-art-and-writings-women-prison-spring-2014-newsletter
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/screen_shot_2014-04-29_at_5.57.16_pm.png" width="640" height="413" alt="Tenacious: Art and writings from women in prison" title="Tenacious: Art and writings from women in prison" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="p1">In the words of Victoria Law, the editor, our recently acquired zine* series is “a collection of articles, essays, poetry and art by formerly and currently incarcerated women across the United States. Their works cover subjects like the health care (or lack of health care) system, being HIV-positive inside prison, trying to get an education while in prison, sexual harassment by prison staff and general prison conditions, and giving up children for adoption—in the U.S., if a child is in foster care for 15 of the past 22 months, the state automatically terminates the parent’s legal rights. Many women in prison have sentences far exceeding 15 months <i>and</i> the majority of them were single parents before entering prison” (<i>Tenacious</i>, 2009). </p>
<p class="p3">Law founded <i>Tenacious</i> in 2003 in response to a request from incarcerated women in Oregon who could find no outlet for their work. It is produced in print format only. As access to the internet is extremely limited within prisons, an “open access” publishing model would be of no benefit whatsoever to the majority of the zine’s incarcerated readers. Law handles distribution herself, mailing issues to women prisoners free of charge, and covering her costs by asking readers on the outside to pay $3 per issue. </p>
<p class="p1"><i>*What’s a zine? It’s a DIY-style publication of original work, usually with a small circulation.</i></p>
<p class="p2">Sources:</p>
<ul><li class="p3"><a href="http://grassrootsfeminism.net/cms/node/117"><i>Tenacious: Art and writing from women in prison: An interview with Vikki Law</i></a> from New York, United States. 2/13/2009. </li>
<li class="p3">Law, Victoria. (2007). <a href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=f5h&amp;AN=26273674&amp;site=eds-live">Incarcerated women create their own media</a> (available online to John Jay community). <i>Off our backs</i> 37(1): 37-42. </li>
</ul><p class="p3"><em>Ellen Sexton</em></p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:58:27 +0000esexton1213 at http://lib.jjay.cuny.eduhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/tenacious-art-and-writings-women-prison-spring-2014-newsletter#commentsLibrary newsletterhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/library-newsletter
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The <a href="http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/newsletter/spring2012/Spring2012.pdf">spring 2012 newsletter</a> from the Lloyd Sealy Library is now available. </p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:52:28 +0000esexton997 at http://lib.jjay.cuny.eduhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/library-newsletter#commentsTerrorism: A guide to resourceshttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/terrorism-guide-resources
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Just published by Lloyd Sealy librarians Marta Bladek and Karen Okamoto! "This guide aims to assist students, faculty and the general public in navigating the vast array of terrorism-related resources,focusing on research conducted and published since 2001". Their article <a href="http://ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01604951111105005">Terrorism: A guide to resources</a> appears in the January 2011 issue of <em>Collection building</em>. </p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:11:04 +0000esexton979 at http://lib.jjay.cuny.eduhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/terrorism-guide-resources#commentsCUNY+ maintenancehttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-maintenance
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The catalog CUNY+ is unavailable this morning, Friday August 20, for maintenance. We expect it to be back at 10 am.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:10:58 +0000esexton974 at http://lib.jjay.cuny.eduhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-maintenance#commentsShort trial to Oxford Bibliographies Onlinehttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/short-trial-oxford-bibliographies-online
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>We have access to this database only through July 31, 2010.<br />
"Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. Each entry is a selective guided tour through the key literature on a topic, receives multiple peer-reviews as well as Editorial Board approval, and is designed to facilitate a research experience with no dead ends. All citations can be linked through to your collection via OpenURL, full-text via DOIs, or to the web via links to OCLC, WorldCat, and Google Books. <em>These links are not established for the trial</em>."<br />
Bibliographies are currently available for these subject areas: Atlantic History; Classics; Criminology; Islamic Studies; Philosophy; Renaissance and Reformation; Social Work. Two John Jay faculty members ( Karen Terry and Lila Kazemian) compiled the bibliographies for 6 of the topics within the Criminology bibliography. </p>
<p>Click here to access <a href="http://ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/login?url=http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com">Oxford Bibliographies Online</a> </p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:32:06 +0000esexton973 at http://lib.jjay.cuny.eduhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/short-trial-oxford-bibliographies-online#commentsNew trial: Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre databasehttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/new-trial-janes-terrorism-and-insurgency-centre-database
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>UPDATE: We have purchased a subscription to this database, for 5 concurrent users. </p>
<p>We have a 4 week trial for a complex database from Jane’s called Terrorism and Insurgency Centre. No library in CUNY has this database. The trial ends on May 22, 2010. </p>
<p>Access is limited to 5 concurrent users. Please remember to log out when you are finished, so someone else can use it. (Log-out link is in the top right hand corner of the database screen).</p>
<p>Click here for access from John Jay: <a href="http://jtic.janes.com/JDIC/JTIC/home.do"><strong>Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre database trial</strong></a>.<br />
Or click <a href="http://ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/login?url=http://jtic.janes.com/JDIC/JTIC/home.do">here for remote access</a>. </p>
<p>The publisher claims this to be "<em>The most comprehensive and authoritative source of the latest global terrorism-related news, analysis, reference and events . This unique service brings you the latest terrorism news, exclusive features, detailed reference and an interactive terrorist events database with an eight-year archive, giving you the most reliable and extensive collection of open source terrorism-related intelligence available.</em> " </p>
<p>Please do send us your thoughts! Any thoughts regarding the database and whether or not we should subscribe to it are encouraged! </p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:00:23 +0000esexton972 at http://lib.jjay.cuny.eduhttp://lib.jjay.cuny.edu/blog/new-trial-janes-terrorism-and-insurgency-centre-database#comments